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NewsConsultant ex-solicitor fined almost 14 years after strike-off
Experienced lawyer failed to conduct due diligence on potentially high-risk client.
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NewsEvidence of NDA misuse mounting as regulator plans action
Legal Services Board pledges ‘strengthened’ approach to regulating non-disclosure agreements.
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NewsFormer victims' commissioner returns to role on temporary basis
Baroness Newlove returns to role last held by Vera Baird KC, who stepped down a year ago.
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NewsKenya divided by 'fake' lawyer who kept winning cases
Law Society of Kenya wants ‘masquerader’ Brian Mwenda stopped from representing clients.
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NewsWilko legal costs mount as law firms named as creditors
Shoosmiths and Pinsent Masons are advising on administration of collapsed retail giant.
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NewsRacist word used at City firm's IPO dinner, tribunal hears
Phrase with racist word was spoken by former chief executive of Rosenblatt, employment tribunal in London hears.
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NewsGovernment opens independent review of fraud and disclosure offences
First independent review since 1986, chaired by a KC, will look at current disclosure practices with recommendations expected by next year.
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NewsPartners approve merger to create global super-firm A&O Shearman
Firm leader says merger is a ’transformational step for legal industry’.
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NewsAML supervision: Law Society backs consolidation but rejects state regulator
Chancery Lane favours second of four options proposed by the Treasury: a legal sector supervisor but for England and Wales only.
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NewsAI could widen access to justice in Wales, new LCJ suggests
AI should be explored to improve linguistic access to justice in Wales, Dame Sue Carr has said in her first official speech as Lady Chief Justice. Carr, who was sworn in as head of the judiciary on 4 October, told the Legal Wales Conference last Friday that linguistic access to ...
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NewsCity firm’s facilities manager jailed over £1m fake invoice fraud
Fake invoices came to light following firm’s monitoring and oversight processes.
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NewsTop 50 firm makes redundancies in real estate team
Trowers & Hamlins says it is responding to reduced market demand.
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NewsStrong argument for joint regulation of solicitors and barristers, says LSB chief
Merger of Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board something to consider, says Legal Services Board CEO Matthew Hill.
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NewsBarristers lose out in ‘all or nothing’ £150k fee claim
Two barristers, one of them a silk, have lost what was described as an ‘all or nothing’ court case in which they sued a former client.
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NewsTop Post Office solicitor told colleagues: ‘Get on with prosecuting’
Former head of prosecutions denies he was ever pressured not to act independently.
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NewsSolicitor attorneys fined £11,250 each over damaged property
Solicitors Regulation Authority found the pair failed to ensure conditions of home insurance policy were met.
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NewsTrader’s conviction for rate rigging could be overturned
Carlo Palombo’s case ‘not dissimilar’ to that of Tom Hayes, says Criminal Cases Review Commission.
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News‘Major milestone’: CAT to rule on collective action settlement
A £1.5m settlement is agreed in car delivery charges opt-out claim financed by a litigation funder.
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NewsParalegal acted dishonestly by backdating letter
Former Irwin Mitchell employee handed Section 43 order.
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NewsSolicitor dismissed at the ‘worst possible time’ awarded £1.1m
General counsel of challenger bank Starling told employee that she was ’not a Starling person’.